Word: gate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more will make it before this year's end, but for most it is only a mirage. Those who stay may take their choice from among the following: "Out of the sticks in '46"; "From hell to heaven in '47" and the old standby, "Golden Gate...
...built up a 48-point margin to keep his world's championship with a grand total of 4,819 points for the go 60-point blocks. To both it seemed like a hard way to earn $6,000 and $4,000, their 60-40 split of the total gate receipts (after expenses...
...interview Doenitz asked the SHAEF general on the Patria for help. The general said that he did not care to ask Doenitz' permission for the interview, but wished the correspondent luck. The correspondent and a German captain, who spoke English, then made their way to the headquarters gate but got no further. German guards sprang to attention, rifles at the ready...
Prime Minister Churchill left the gate open: he told the aroused House of Commons that he preferred to think of the Doenitz regime as an "administration rather than a government." For the long term, he added, Germans should administer Germany under Allied supervision (see below...
...Bedlam's Gate. Elizabeth's story: at the gate of Bedlam two men had stolen her money and given her a blow on the head that sent her into a fit. She had been subject to fits since a garret ceiling fell on her head in childhood. "When I came out of my fit," she said, "I found myself between the two men in a roadway. . . . About half an hour later we came to a house. There I saw an old woman and two young ones. The old woman took me by the hand and asked...